Hands can do all kinds of things! A rhyming text with eye-catching color photos offers just the encouragement young children need to explore their world — hands on. Hands can hold things. Hands can mold things.  Hands can catch and hands can throw. Hands can do much more, of course — wave hello and goodbye, play peekaboo, touch things, clap, even tie a shoe. For the very young, hands are a never-ending source of discovery and a means of mastery in an ever-unfolding world. With singsong rhythm, simple design, and alluring color photos of toddlers,  Hands Can  invites the littlest readers to discover the many things hands can do. Children are sure to reach for this book again and again. —Scholastic Parent & Child This inviting offering provides youngsters with an almost sensory experience in which they can appreciate how their hands help them to explore and interact with their world. —School Library Journal Now as a sturdy board book, Hands Can is an ideal book for encouraging little ones to explore their world - hands on! The simple design, and alluring color photographs of toddlers - just like them - makes this the perfect addition to a young one's first library. Cheryl Willis Hudson says, "I was amazed by the versatility, dexterity, utility, and even the gracefulness of such small fingers. I began to see hands as marvelous works of art, and I wanted to somehow capture that vision in a children's book." John-Francis Bourke says, "Photographing people provides me with a constant stream of new faces, new words, new conversation - it never gets old. Photographing children gives you all that, plus innocence and curiosity. Wonderful!" Cheryl Willis Hudson  is the author of a dozen books for children, including  Bright Eyes, Brown Skin  (coauthored with Bernette G. Ford) and  Come by Here ,  Lord: Everyday Prayers for Children . She says that  Hands Can  was inspired by her own children. "I was amazed by the versatility, dexterity, utility, and even gracefulness of such small fingers," she says. "I began to see hands as marvelous works of art, and I wanted to somehow capture that vision in a children’s book." John-Francis Bourke  was born in Dublin, Ireland, and now works in New York City. His photographs have been published in  GQ ,  TV Guide ,  ESPN The Magazine ,  Nick Jr. ,  Parenting , and  Parents . He says, "Photographing people provides me with a constant stream of new faces, new words, new conversation - it never gets old. Photographing children gives you all that, plus innocence and curiosity. Wonderful!" This is his first book for children. N/A